Should we bail out our kids? – Many young adults are heavily leveraged. Average student loans among the two-thirds of college undergraduates who have borrowed rose an estimated 5% in the past year alone, to $22,000, says the nonprofit Project on Student Debt; many also have credit-card debt.

Short Sell Ban is liftted – Gates found the targeted stocks posted a 12.9% median decline over the period, compared with a 17.8% drop for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and a 23% decline for the Russell 2000 Index.